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sub-apartment en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + apartment.

Meanings

1. An apartment forming part of a larger apartment.
   • The buildings had been converted to small rooms and sub-apartments, one stacked inside another. 2010, Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps:
   • […] the same crowded conditions in each of the five one-room and my friends' two-room (for five adults) subapartments of the communal apartment. 1957, The Reporter, volume 16, page 18:
   • The royal quarters arced on either side like a horseshoe, and our temporary home was to the very end of the hall, in a sub-apartment that opened with yet another bio-lock. 2020, Alexa Donne, The Stars We Steal:

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